Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

Update 5/19/17: Public affairs officer, Arlen Morales, told Judicial Watch this
week that the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s office has
been “working through a number of technical issues” and sent a working link for
the report.

Fifteen years after
Islamic terrorists exploited the U.S. government’s inept method of tracking
visa overstays, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still uses an
antiquated system that doesn’t have the capability to get the job done. This
allows foreign individuals, who may “pose severe national security risks” to
remain in the country, according to a federal audit that for unknown reasons
was yanked from the public domain. A 45-page report was issued this month by
the DHS Inspector General and Judicial Watch reviewed it thoroughly before the
watchdog mysteriously pulled it from its website. Judicial Watch has repeatedly
reached out to the DHS IG’s office but has received no response. Here’s the link that went bad as also noted by a few
other outlets.

To be sure, the findings
are an embarrassment to the government because visa overstays have been a major
national security issue for well over a decade. Several of the 9/11 hijackers
remained in the U.S. after their visa expired to plan and carry out the worst
terrorist attack on American soil. A few years after the 2001 attacks Congress
launched a system that was supposed to take care of the problem by tracking the
entry and exit of foreign nationals with electronically scanned fingerprints
and photographs. But five years and $1 billion later, the system, U.S. Visitor
and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT), still had serious
flaws. A few years later the investigative arm of Congress, the Government Accountability
Office (GAO), published a report confirming that nearly half of the
nation’s illegal aliens entered the U.S. legally and overstayed their visas
undetected. In the years that followed the government did little to improve
what has developed into a dire national security disaster. In 2011 yet another federal audit confirmed that the U.S. had lost
track of millions who overstayed their visas and two years later the crisis
intensified when DHS lost track of 266 dangerous foreigners
with expired visas. The government determined that they “could pose a national
security or public safety concerns,” according to the director of Homeland
Security and Justice at the GAO.

Just last year Judicial
Watch obtained DHS figures showing that more than half a
million foreigners with expired visas—like the 9/11 jihadists—remained in the
country, thousands of them from terrorist nations like Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen,
Libya and Syria. More than 45,000 Mexicans overstayed their visa, according to
the DHS records, and thousands more from El Salvador, Ecuador, Venezuela and
China. The visas are granted for “business or pleasure” and the foreigners come
via sea or air port of entry. For nearly a decade a number of federal audits
have offered the alarming figures associated with visa overstays, including one
released back in 2011 that estimates half of the nation’s illegal immigrants
entered legally with visas.

This month’s DHS IG
report exposes the disturbing reality that the U.S. government has done nothing
to prevent another terrorist attack by dangerous elements that remain in the
country with an expired visa. Many fall through the cracks because Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the DHS agency responsible for the task, must
piece together information from dozens of systems and databases that aren’t
reliable.The problem is

so out of control that ICE must

depend on often sketchy data

provided by third parties such as

commercial carrier passenger lists

that often provide false visitor

departure and arrival information.“Such
false departure information resulted in [Enforcement and Removal Operations]
officers closing visa overstay investigations of dangerous individuals, such as
suspected criminals, who were actually still in the United States and could
pose a threat to national security,” according to the DHS IG report. “For
example, [a deportation] officer stated that a suspect under investigation was
listed as having left the country, but had given his ticket to a family member
and was still residing in the United States.”

Here are the overall
figures that illustrate how bad the problem is; of more than half a million
visa overstays identified by the DHS watchdog, a mere 3,402 were caught by
federal authorities. It gets better. The various unreliable databases that ICE
uses also provided inaccurate information on the 0.4% that got busted,
according to the report. “In some cases, the individuals arrested had been
reported in DHS systems as having already left the United States,” the report
states. “Because this information was not recorded, ICE personnel were unable
to provide an exact number when asked during our audit.”

In 2015, the U.S. issued
nearly 11 million visas and, though only a small percentage overstay, they pose
serious national security risks, the watchdog found. As an example, the report
mentions the 9/11 hijackers who overstayed their visa. “This prompted the 9/11
Commission to call for the government to ensure that all visitors to the United
States are tracked on entry and exit,” DHS investigators remind. Instead, there
is a backlog of 1.2 million expired visa cases, the report says.

BILLIONS SQUANDERED BY THE PENTAGON AND DEFENDING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS WHO HAVE BEEN GENEROUS DONORS TO THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON and the OBOMB!

By
Jordan Shilton
22 May 2017

A report in Sunday’s edition of theWashington
Postaccuses the
Pentagon of operating a multi-billion dollar slush fund which it has accrued
over the past seven years by overcharging the armed forces for the cost of fuel
purchases. The $5.9 billion it has built up since 2010 has been used to fund
military operations in Syria and Afghanistan, effectively avoiding any of the
budgetary oversight requirements necessary to obtain additional funding from
Congress.

The most significant expenditures from the fund identified by thePostwere a total of $1.4 billion used in
2016 to maintain the United States’ brutal occupation of Afghanistan and the
use of $80 million to train Islamist militias in Syria in 2015 with the aim of
toppling the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.

The explosion in spending on the Afghan war illustrates the
deepening crisis of the more than 15-year-old US occupation of the
impoverished, war-torn country.

Billions of dollars have been spent on waging a ruthless
counter-insurgency war against the resistance of the local population to the US
presence, led by the Islamist Taliban. This has included the expenditure of
vast sums of money to establish and prop up a corrupt puppet regime in Kabul,
which is struggling to exercise authority over more than a few major cities, is
deeply reviled by wide sections of the population, and is losing ground to the
Taliban. Just last month, Taliban fighters carried out their bloodiest attack
on the Afghan army since 2001, killing upwards of 200 soldiers.

The $80 million redirected by the Pentagon to Syria helped
continue to fund a US training program to create a Sunni militia capable of
fighting ISIS and ousting Assad. The program proved to be an unmitigated
disaster, managing to train only 150 of the original target of 5,000 fighters.
Most of these fighters were captured by al-Qaida or other groups when they were
sent into Syria, or deserted.

This setback only caused Washington to intervene even more
aggressively, first by funneling aid through its Gulf allies and the CIA to
Jihadi proxy forces to wage war in Syria, and later by bolstering the presence
of US ground forces. Under President Trump, the number of US ground forces in
Syria has more than doubled and he has relaxed restrictions on airstrikes,
leading to a dramatic spike in civilian casualties.

The sharpest criticism of the Pentagon’s slush fund came from Navy
officials, who described the surplus built up by the Pentagon as a “bishop’s
fund.”

ThePostnoted that the Defense Logistics
Agency, the body responsible for selling fuel, sets a fixed price which is
often substantially higher than the commercial rate and is intended to remain
in place for a year. Before 2009, no major discrepancies arose, but from 2010
onwards, the DLA began setting prices at levels sometimes $1 per barrel above
the commercial rate.

A review of Pentagon purchasing data found that the branches of
the armed forces had been charged $23 billion more for fuel between 2010 and
2016 than commercial airlines would have paid.

While Pentagon officials acknowledged that around three-quarters
of this covered additional costs, such as specialized fuel requirements and
overheads, this still left a $5.9 billion surplus. The only time Congress
appears to have directly intervened was in 2015, when it requested the Pentagon
to return $1 billion to reflect reduced fuel prices.

The Defense Department’s use of such a fund to meet the costs of
military operations is only the latest example of the increasing ability of the
military-intelligence apparatus to act outside of any accountability to
Congress. Despite the US gargantuan defense budget, which dwarfs those of all
of its nearest competitors, the Pentagon has over recent years taken advantage
of accounting methods to allocate tens of billions more in funding to military
operations beyond the funds approved by Congress.

Under the Obama administration, Democrats and Republicans included
a so-called parity regulation as part of their 2011 budget deal which
stipulated that any increase in defense spending had to be accompanied by a
corresponding rise in domestic budgets. To avoid this requirement, the Pentagon
increasingly relied on Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding, which is
designed to cover the costs of foreign wars. Reports suggest that the Pentagon
now uses $30 billion of OCO annually to supplement its base budget.

Such developments could only take place under conditions where
there is a bipartisan consensus to retain the US military as a force capable of
waging war around the globe. Both the Democrats and Republicans, speaking on
behalf of the super-rich oligarchy in the United States, are fully committed to
the increasing resort to military violence in a desperate bid to offset
Washington’s economic decline and retain its hegemonic position against its
geopolitical rivals in every region of the world. Under conditions in which
Washington has been waging virtually uninterrupted war for a quarter-century,
the maintenance of even a semblance of democratic control over the military’s
operations is increasingly impossible.

President Obama initiated the US intervention in Syria, expanded
the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched air and drone strikes on at
least eight countries across the Middle East and North Africa, and facilitated
the bloody Saudi onslaught on Yemen, where tens of thousands of civilians have
died.

In a revealing finding that shows how routine the waging of war
has become for the US military, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
reported that the Pentagon’s accounting systems do not recognize a difference
between wartime operations and routine expenditure, which was traditionally
covered by the base defense budget.

The GAO wrote that the Defense Department internally reallocated
$146 billion in operations and maintenance (O&M) funding between 2009 and
2015, but added, “[T]he effects of such realignments on base obligations were
not readily apparent because DOD did not report its O&M base obligations to
Congress separately from its O&M overseas contingency operations (OCO)
obligations used to support war-related programs and activities.”

Even greater sums of money are to be allocated to the military
under Trump’s budget proposal, to which the Democrats have offered virtually no
opposition, of an annual defense spending increase of $54 billion, equivalent
to almost 10 percent of the existing budget. Such additional funds will pay for
the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, where the US is seeking to
maintain its dominance over one of the most energy-rich regions of the world
against its chief rivals, Russia and China.

On Friday, Defense Secretary James Mattis put forward a plan for
the waging of war by the US across a region stretching from Central Asia to
West Africa. Presented as a fight against Jihadi “terrorism,” it is in reality
only one step in the global military strategy of US imperialism, which carries
the increasing risk of triggering a catastrophic world war between the major
powers.

In September 1994, the United States exported $4,381,200,000 in goods to Mexico and imported $4,376,500,000—running a surplus of $4,700,000.

The $7,032,600,000 merchandise trade deficit that the U.S. ran with Mexico this March was 1,496 times larger than the $4,700,000 surplus it ran in September 1994.

NAFTA was signed by President Georg H.W. Bush in December 1992—just one month before he left office. Congress approved it by simple majority votes in both houses of Congress—rather than by the two-thirds Senate majority needed to ratify a treaty—in 1993. In December 1993, President Bill Clinton signed it.

In the three years leading up to approval of NAFTA (1991, 1992, 1993), the United States ran merchandise trade surpluses with Mexico. In 1991, it ran a surplus of $2,147,600,000. In 1992, it ran a surplus of $5,381,200,000. And in 1993, it ran a surplus of $1,663,300,000.

The U.S. also ran a merchandise trade surplus with Mexico in 1994, the first full calendar year NAFTA was in effect. That year, the bilateral U.S. merchandise trade deficit with Mexico was $1,349,800,000.

But September 1994 was the last time the U.S. ran a monthly merchandise trade surplus with Mexico. In every single month since then, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with Mexico.

On Thursday, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer--who was sworn into office on Monday--officially notified Congress that the Trump administration will be renegotiating NAFTA.

“We are committed to concluding these negotiations with timely and substantive results for U.S. consumers, businesses, farmers, ranchers, and workers consistent with U.S. priorities and the negotiating objectives established by the Congress in statute,” Lighthizer wrote.

OPEN BORDERS and HEROIN: AMERICAN POLITICIANS PARTNER WITH
THE LA RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!

CAUTION!

HERE IS THE MEXICO POURING OVER OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED
BORDERS AND HAULING BACK BILLIONS FROM HEROIN SALES!

GRAPHIC IMAGES of America coming
under Mex Occupation

The NARCOMEX drug cartels now
operate in all major American cities and haul back to NARCOMEX between $40 top
$60 BILLION from sales of HEROIN!

Chicago and the State of Illinois are lurching toward insolvency, burdened by enormous pension liabilities, political payoffs from past generations that kept the Democrat Machine in power for generations. Rahm Emanuel knows this, and is doing his best to come up with financial schemes to keep paying bills. His latest effort at borrowing to keep the Chicago Public Schools (already almost a billion dollars behind in paying its expenses – particularly pension fund contributions) afloat is being called a “payday loan” even by Democrats, as the Dems scramble to blame Republican Governor Bruce Rauner for the collapse of the Blue Model. Fran Spielman reports for the Chicago Sun-Times:

“You have a situation…created by the state of Illinois to create a maximum amount of pressure on the public schools, specifically Chicago,” Emanuel said.

“It’s a short-term solution to a short-term problem created consciously, woefully by the governor to create political pressure. That’s how we’re handling it. That’s the most appropriate way to deal with it.”

Aldermen don’t see it that way. They likened it to the skipped pension payments that got CPS into this mess and Emanuel vowed to end.

“Daley didn’t pay pensions. This is borrowing instead of not paying. You’re still robbing Peter to pay Paul and putting a Band-Aid on it,” said South Side Ald. Anthony Beale (9th).

“We’re borrowing money hoping that, eventually, the state comes through. If the state doesn’t come through, we’re gonna be in worse shape tomorrow than we are today. It’s gonna cost to borrow money. Taxpayers are still losing.”

Illinois is as broke as Chicago. If this were a business, Rahm would be borrowing against his “accounts receivable” – also known as “factoring.” That is a common practice among financially-troubled businesses to keep the doors open. Rahm is trying to find a factor that will lend almost $400 mill against the promise of a broke state to come up with the cash.

The source of the borrowing has not yet been determined, nor has the interest rate. That must wait until the borrowing goes out to bid. The maximum interest rate allowed by state law is nine percent.

Chief Financial Officer Carole Brown said the short-term loan will be limited to $389 million because the school system’s “lending partners” were willing to finance only about “85 percent of the outstanding receivable” of state grants. The rest will come from savings generated by mid-year budget cuts, Brown said, with a hazy explanation that raised more questions than it answered.

Nine percent is a handsome return in a low interest environment. If Rahm is unable to borrow at that price, it would be a sign that the financial crisis is getting closer. But I suspect that he already has sources of funds, and that the bet would be that the feds would come up with a loan if the effort fails.

Chicago has already sold off major assets, including the right to collect money from parking meters. There are fewer and fewer sources of funds available.

The crash is coming. The Dems are just looking for opportunities to blame Republicans for the consequences of their bribes to unionized public employees.

During Obama’s 8 year bankster
regime, he openly operated and funded the Mexican fascist racist party of LA
RAZA “The Race” from the White House under La Raza VP Cecilia Munoz…. Google
Obama and LA RAZA!

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California: The sick man of the United States…. A
STATE UNDER MEX OCCUPATION!

“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the
goal of destroying the United States.Mexican
drug cartels are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community
across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH

“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare
benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty
would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert
Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart
News.”

In
California, illegals can vote: it’s possible and very likely. California’s
automatic motor-voter law all but assures that illegals seeking driver’s
licenses will get a ballot along with their license.

Miscreants
from any corner of the world can register to vote in California online, too. No
vetting, no assurance, no integrity.

Voter
fraud in broken inner city hellholes like Detroit and New York City cannot
compare with the ballot stuffing throughout the once Golden State.

California State Senate
President Pro Tem Kevin De Léon (D-Los Angeles) said last Tuesday
that “half his family” was in the country illegally, using false
documents, and eligible for deportation under President Trump’s newexecutive
orderagainst
“sanctuary” jurisdictions.

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"The American Southwest seems to be slowly
returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single
shot." --- EXCELSIOR --- national
newspaper of Mexico

SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN, HUBBY LOOTER
RICHARD BLUM AND LAP B ITCH, BARBARA “BRIBES” BOXER…. Along with Nancy Pelosi,
four of the most corrupt and self-serving plunderers of America… These Cretans
redefine the term CRONY CAPITALIST PIGS!

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike,
has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.
This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com